Since we are always asked for this,  it makes sense to publish it on the blog.

Its the latest list of LinkedIn country URL’s allowing you to deep search, for example, Polish LinkedIn profiles by using site:pl.linkedin.com (then rest of search string here.)  Note you can also search for Poles or Romanians by searching  site:pl.linkedin.com OR site:ro.linkedin.com (then rest of search string)

Let us know if you have any additions, updates.

Country |  Country Code |  LinkedIn URL

United States us www.linkedin.com

Afghanistan af af.linkedin.com

Aland Islands ax ax.linkedin.com

Albania al al.linkedin.com

Algeria dz dz.linkedin.com

American Samoa as as.linkedin.com

Andorra ad ad.linkedin.com

Angola ao ao.linkedin.com

Anguilla ai ai.linkedin.com

Antarctica aq aq.linkedin.com

Antigua and Barbuda ag ag.linkedin.com

Argentina ar ar.linkedin.com

Armenia am am.linkedin.com

Aruba aw aw.linkedin.com

Australia au au.linkedin.com

Austria at at.linkedin.com

Azerbaijan az az.linkedin.com

Bahamas bs bs.linkedin.com

Bahrain bh bh.linkedin.com

Bangladesh bd bd.linkedin.com

Barbados bb bb.linkedin.com

Belarus by by.linkedin.com

Belgium be be.linkedin.com

Belize bz bz.linkedin.com

Benin bj bj.linkedin.com

Bermuda bm bm.linkedin.com

Bhutan bt bt.linkedin.com

Bolivia bo bo.linkedin.com

Bosnia and Herzegovina ba ba.linkedin.com

Botswana bw bw.linkedin.com

Brazil br br.linkedin.com

British Indian Ocean Territory io io.linkedin.com

Brunei Darussalam bn bn.linkedin.com

Bulgaria bg bg.linkedin.com

Burkina Faso bf bf.linkedin.com

Burundi bi bi.linkedin.com

Cambodia kh kh.linkedin.com

Cameroon cm cm.linkedin.com

Canada ca ca.linkedin.com

Cape Verde cv cv.linkedin.com

Caribbean Nations cb cb.linkedin.com

Cayman Islands ky ky.linkedin.com

Central African Republic cf cf.linkedin.com

Chad td td.linkedin.com

Chile cl cl.linkedin.com

China cn cn.linkedin.com

Christmas Island cx cx.linkedin.com

Cocos (Keeling) Islands cc cc.linkedin.com

Colombia co co.linkedin.com

Comoros km km.linkedin.com

Congo cg cg.linkedin.com

Cook Islands ck ck.linkedin.com

Costa Rica cr cr.linkedin.com

Cote D’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) ci ci.linkedin.com

Croatia hr hr.linkedin.com

Cuba cu cu.linkedin.com

Cyprus cy cy.linkedin.com

Czech Republic cz cz.linkedin.com

Democratic Republic of the Congo cd cd.linkedin.com

Denmark dk dk.linkedin.com

Djibouti dj dj.linkedin.com

Dominica dm dm.linkedin.com

Dominican Republic do do.linkedin.com

East Timor tp tp.linkedin.com

Ecuador ec ec.linkedin.com

Egypt eg eg.linkedin.com

El Salvador sv sv.linkedin.com

Equatorial Guinea gq gq.linkedin.com

Eritrea er er.linkedin.com

Estonia ee ee.linkedin.com

Ethiopia et et.linkedin.com

Falkland Islands (Malvinas) fk fk.linkedin.com

Faroe Islands fo fo.linkedin.com

Federated States of Micronesia fm fm.linkedin.com

Fiji fj fj.linkedin.com

Finland fi fi.linkedin.com

France fr fr.linkedin.com

French Guiana gf gf.linkedin.com

French Polynesia pf pf.linkedin.com

French Southern Territories tf tf.linkedin.com

Gabon ga ga.linkedin.com

Gambia gm gm.linkedin.com

Georgia ge ge.linkedin.com

Germany de de.linkedin.com

Ghana gh gh.linkedin.com

Gibraltar gi gi.linkedin.com

Greece gr gr.linkedin.com

Greenland gl gl.linkedin.com

Grenada gd gd.linkedin.com

Guadeloupe gp gp.linkedin.com

Guam gu gu.linkedin.com

Guatemala gt gt.linkedin.com

Guernsey gg gg.linkedin.com

Guinea gn gn.linkedin.com

Guinea-Bissau gw gw.linkedin.com

Guyana gy gy.linkedin.com

Haiti ht ht.linkedin.com

Honduras hn hn.linkedin.com

Hong Kong hk hk.linkedin.com

Hungary hu hu.linkedin.com

Iceland is is.linkedin.com

India in in.linkedin.com

Indonesia id id.linkedin.com

Iran ir ir.linkedin.com

Iraq iq iq.linkedin.com

Ireland ie ie.linkedin.com

Isle of Man im im.linkedin.com

Israel il il.linkedin.com

Italy it it.linkedin.com

Jamaica jm jm.linkedin.com

Japan jp jp.linkedin.com

Jersey je je.linkedin.com

Jordan jo jo.linkedin.com

Kazakhstan kz kz.linkedin.com

Kenya ke ke.linkedin.com

Kiribati ki ki.linkedin.com

Korea kr kr.linkedin.com

Korea (North) kp kp.linkedin.com

Kuwait kw kw.linkedin.com

Kyrgyzstan kg kg.linkedin.com

Laos la la.linkedin.com

Latvia lv lv.linkedin.com

Lebanon lb lb.linkedin.com

Lesotho ls ls.linkedin.com

Liberia lr lr.linkedin.com

Libya ly ly.linkedin.com

Liechtenstein li li.linkedin.com

Lithuania lt lt.linkedin.com

Luxembourg lu lu.linkedin.com

Macao mo mo.linkedin.com

Macedonia mk mk.linkedin.com

Madagascar mg mg.linkedin.com

Malawi mw mw.linkedin.com

Malaysia my my.linkedin.com

Maldives mv mv.linkedin.com

Mali ml ml.linkedin.com

Malta mt mt.linkedin.com

Marshall Islands mh mh.linkedin.com

Martinique mq mq.linkedin.com

Mauritania mr mr.linkedin.com

Mauritius mu mu.linkedin.com

Mayotte yt yt.linkedin.com

Mexico mx mx.linkedin.com

Moldova md md.linkedin.com

Monaco mc mc.linkedin.com

Mongolia mn mn.linkedin.com

Montenegro me me.linkedin.com

Montserrat ms ms.linkedin.com

Morocco ma ma.linkedin.com

Mozambique mz mz.linkedin.com

Myanmar mm mm.linkedin.com

Namibia na na.linkedin.com

Nauru nr nr.linkedin.com

Nepal np np.linkedin.com

Netherlands nl nl.linkedin.com

Netherlands Antilles an an.linkedin.com

New Caledonia nc nc.linkedin.com

New Zealand nz nz.linkedin.com

Nicaragua ni ni.linkedin.com

Niger ne ne.linkedin.com

Nigeria ng ng.linkedin.com

Niue nu nu.linkedin.com

Norfolk Island nf nf.linkedin.com

Northern Mariana Islands mp mp.linkedin.com

Norway no no.linkedin.com

Oman om om.linkedin.com

Pakistan pk pk.linkedin.com

Palau pw pw.linkedin.com

Palestinian Territory ps ps.linkedin.com

Panama pa pa.linkedin.com

Papua New Guinea pg pg.linkedin.com

Paraguay py py.linkedin.com

Peru pe pe.linkedin.com

Philippines ph ph.linkedin.com

Pitcairn pn pn.linkedin.com

Poland pl pl.linkedin.com

Portugal pt pt.linkedin.com

Puerto Rico pr pr.linkedin.com

Qatar qa qa.linkedin.com

Reunion re re.linkedin.com

Romania ro ro.linkedin.com

Russian Federation ru ru.linkedin.com

Rwanda rw rw.linkedin.com

Saint Helena sh sh.linkedin.com

Saint Kitts and Nevis kn kn.linkedin.com

Saint Lucia lc lc.linkedin.com

Saint Pierre and Miquelon pm pm.linkedin.com

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines vc vc.linkedin.com

Samoa ws ws.linkedin.com

San Marino sm sm.linkedin.com

Sao Tome and Principe st st.linkedin.com

Saudi Arabia sa sa.linkedin.com

Senegal sn sn.linkedin.com

Serbia rs rs.linkedin.com

Seychelles sc sc.linkedin.com

Sierra Leone sl sl.linkedin.com

Singapore sg sg.linkedin.com

Slovak Republic sk sk.linkedin.com

Slovenia si si.linkedin.com

Solomon Islands sb sb.linkedin.com

Somalia so so.linkedin.com

South Africa za za.linkedin.com

Spain es es.linkedin.com

Sri Lanka lk lk.linkedin.com

Sudan sd sd.linkedin.com

Suriname sr sr.linkedin.com

Svalbard and Jan Mayen sj sj.linkedin.com

Swaziland sz sz.linkedin.com

Sweden se se.linkedin.com

Switzerland ch ch.linkedin.com

Syria sy sy.linkedin.com

Taiwan tw tw.linkedin.com

Tajikistan tj tj.linkedin.com

Tanzania tz tz.linkedin.com

Thailand th th.linkedin.com

Timor-Leste tl tl.linkedin.com

Togo tg tg.linkedin.com

Tokelau tk tk.linkedin.com

Tonga to to.linkedin.com

Trinidad and Tobago tt tt.linkedin.com

Tunisia tn tn.linkedin.com

Turkey tr tr.linkedin.com

Turkmenistan tm tm.linkedin.com

Turks and Caicos Islands tc tc.linkedin.com

Tuvalu tv tv.linkedin.com

Uganda ug ug.linkedin.com

Ukraine ua ua.linkedin.com

United Arab Emirates ae ae.linkedin.com

United Kingdom gb gb.linkedin.com

Uruguay uy uy.linkedin.com

Uzbekistan uz uz.linkedin.com

Vanuatu vu vu.linkedin.com

Vatican City State (Holy See) va va.linkedin.com

Venezuela ve ve.linkedin.com

Vietnam vn vn.linkedin.com

Virgin Islands (British) vg vg.linkedin.com

Virgin Islands (U.S.) vi vi.linkedin.com

Wallis and Futuna wf wf.linkedin.com

Western Sahara eh eh.linkedin.com

Yemen ye ye.linkedin.com

Zambia zm zm.linkedin.com

Zimbabwe zw zw.linkedin.com

Forget the manual counting of discussions and comments or the “guesstimation” of demographics characteristics because today LinkedIn launched “Statistics for Groups”. Surprisingly enough, it’s accessible to any group members. (and shareable on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn)

LinkedIn Stats gives you pretty much all you need in terms of looking at the growth of your group, “profiling” your members (Seniority/Function/Location/Industry) and most importantly, measuring the actual engagement (discussions, comments, jobs). No more hiding behind the somewhat “always better looking” number of members: if there’s no discussions or if these discussions don’t gather comments, your group is dying and the x new members don’t mean much.

Oh, and it looks quite good as well.

As the understanding and adoption of social networks continues apace in corporate environments, we’re increasingly talking about The Social Company or The Social Enterprise (US meaning, not UK meaning). What does that mean? Well one elegant example is the integration of enterprise tools, such as CRM with social: using the “professional graph” to build richer contact information and relationships. This is a good intro from Linkedin and SalesForce.

http://www.vimeo.com/30821047

LinkedIn Signal should be available for most of you today. If you haven’t already seen it, it allows you to create live, dynamic searches for topics of interest to you - just like a twitter search for #socialmedia will show live conversations around so that topic, so you can now save relevant searches via Signal. This seriously improves the relevance / importance of updates, as - frequent, relevant updates will now put you front of mind to the right audiences. In other applications, candidates for example might save a signal search for a job title. Check out the video below.

Paul Harrison recently spoke at Beament Leslie Thomas’ breakfast seminar about “Employer Reputation 2.0″. You can see key takeaways from this seminar here, as Paul discusses with BLT’s Don Leslie about how brands are being defined in the social space.

You can also view slides from the presentation here on Slideshare.

A few months ago, while attending the Social Collective Conference in London, Paul Harrison (our lovely CEO) said that “your corporate website is going the way of the fax machine”. The audience remained pretty divided about the topic…

As you already know, every company can have its page on LinkedIn. What started as a simple company profile / glimpse at your company’s activity and employees is increasingly becoming a fully functioning and social media integrated corporate mini-site. LinkedIn recently launched the Product and Services page where companies can showcase their core products and services to carefully targeted audiences. Overall, LinkedIn is now getting closer to offer companies pretty much everything they would expect from a corporate website:

- Brand/company presentation

- Product and services showcases

- Careers portal

- Analytics

But the main strength of LinkedIn company pages resides in the very essence of social media marketing: targeting and reaching  people who matter. For employees or job seekers, for potential customers or purchasing managers, for industry influencers or interested observers, LinkedIn is not only a broadcasting/showcasing tool any more , it’s a precisely targeted and easily trackable multi-faceted branded engagement tool.

Even though Company pages don’t allow you to directly sell your products/services or to publish your financials and still lack appeal when it comes to personalised branding and mainstream B2C retail activities, LinkedIN is still becoming increasingly essential for companies whereas the good old corporate websites are losing reach (the SEO power of LinkedIn is amazing) and relevancy (the lack of social media integration often hides the website away from non-obvious stakeholders).

Well, if you’re still reading this, you probably want to know a bit more about how this precisely works. Here come the links:

LinkedIn official Company Page guide: http://marketing.linkedin.com/pdf/LinkedinCompanyPageGuide.pdf

LinkedIn official Products and Services tab guide:

http://marketing.linkedin.com/pdf/LInkedinProductServicesTabGuide.pdf

Enjoy.

Having all your clients and customers following you on Twitter has always been a pain (until today). One reason for this is that you probably won’t be able to find them if they use  their dog’s name or something like “TheBrain55b1″ to log on Twitter. The other reason is that you don’t need to follow/be followed by their sales or customer services but would like to be able to be connected directly to your client, a real human being, not an engagement program.

Twitter just released an embedded app that enables you to connect with your LinkedIn account and automatically lists all of your contacts who have a Twitter account linked to their profile. You won’t reach everyone that way but it’s a good opportunity to tighten up your professional relationships.

We were thrilled to have been at the launch of the community consultations for the update of the South Australian Strategic Plan today.

It was inspiring to see so many community groups, businesses, individuals and government come together for the common goal of making the place we live the best it can be.

South Australia has been really innovative in its approach - which has been recently acknowledged with an international award.

Carve has been working hard alongside the SA Plan team to develop a social media strategy that raises awareness of the plan, its relevance to everyday South Aussies and ultimately encourages them to ‘join the conversation’ wherever it suits them.

This also involved putting the tools in place to allow as many South Australian as possible to engage in the consultation process including a website that allows debate and discussion, a presence on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and more to come as the consultations progress over the next few months.

Here’s a nice graph showing LinkedIn’s  ( the world’s largest professional networking tool ) state today :

http://tinyurl.com/34sjvd6

We’ve written before about the growth of LinkedIn in Australia so we were interested to read about the organisations’ plans to increase the headcount in the Sydney office in The Australian newspaper today.

And as I was writing this post the below email from the fairly new MD, Clifford Rosenberg, just popped into my inbox as I imagine it will in every one of the 1 million Australian users this morning.

In addition to the appointment of Clifford Rosenberg as MD late last year, the company has also appointed a recruitment director, is looking for more staff and a media partner.

Mr Rosenberg said the decision to expand LinkedIn’s Australian operation came after a year of double-digit growth pushed its overall local audience beyond a million users.

“It’s a great starting point to set up this office and there’s a lot of exciting things we can do over here,” Mr Rosenberg said.

It is not clear how much the company plans to increase its local headcount. “I haven’t got a fixed number in mind. I’m not really at liberty to disclose our numbers by region. I don’t envisage a massive office but I do picture a group of highly motivated and enthusiastic individuals.

“We’re in a number of good discussions with telcos and media partners already, but it’s still very early days.”

You can read the full article from The Australian here.